Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-04-30
SOME NOTABLE PICTURES.
This Years London Exhibitions lho
Heat Held i'm a Long Time.

Special Cable Dispatch TO The EVENING srAA
LONDON. April 30.-The pictures this year at the
Royal Academy and the Grosyenor gallery show.
on the whole, an undoubted Increase In interest
over past years Sir Frederick Leighton remarked
yesterday afternoon that the academy exhibition
is the best he had seen for years The Grosvenog
gallery also has collection OF pictures OF remark
able merit Leighton's own picture Is double
rendering OF the tale OF "Hero and Leander, ths
upper part OF the picture showing Hero looking
cut over the waters and the lower showing Leandef
ying drowned on the rocks at Its loot The
president also has a picture called Jealousy Of
Samaethra, the SorcereSs." Thlsis chieny study
of face, in fact that OF Dorothy Dene, the actress
The most beautiful picture however OF the academy
is Sir John Mials' called 1.-The Nest" IL shows .
woman holding child In her arms 10 look into .
birds nest IL is return TO Milais' earliest man
ner, before he had degenerated into what since
his last speech, has been called his "Bath bun
days. IL is ful OF exquisite, simple coloring and
finest feeling. His other picture, which IL sup
posed 10 be more Important, Is a companion 70
"lhe Huguenots" or Is generally regarded As COM
mon place.
ALMA TApEMAs ONE PICTURE
is called "Women OF Amphissa," picture OF
Greek market place, with q dozen sleeping or juss
waking prieSteSSes, surrounded by a guardian ring
OF women uf Phocis- IL has all Tadema's familiar
detail and brilliant
the Greece OF ialry land The most conspicuous
picture OF the year Is 'SarnS0n," by Solomon Solo
Inon, the young painter whose 'Cassandra" AZ
tracted so much notice last exhibition. IL Is q
huge and most striking representation OF the
struggle between
SAMSON AND THE PHnIsTTSEs
after Derlah has betrayed him into their hands
She herself bangles his black hair mockingly be-
fore him In her Jreacherous hand. The American
painter, John 5. Sargent, contributes besides Mrs-
Playfar'S portrait, which his fellow artists are
enthusiastic over, a large impresslonist picture
called 'CarnatiOn Lily, Lily hose" IL shows Two
little girls in white, staCding on nower-bed at
dusk lighting a row OF Chinese lanterns hanging
upon string. These figures are painted from
Mrs. Fred. BarnardS children ia their garden at
Broadway, ia Worcestershire, where the we'll
around Frank Mtetr, spends its summer. Every
one Is talking about IL. certainly IL Is a MASTER
piece OF astounding color-painting, q brilliant
work OF the kecnest observation, although opinions
naturally diifer as 10 whether IL was worth while
TO paint such d subject well. Carolus Duran con-
tributes three very tine portraits. From this br1ef
glimpse at dozen out OF the 600 pict urca, the
interest in the exhibition may be gathered
AT THE GROsvESoR
the principal pictures are large canvas by Burne
Jones' called .sThe Garden OF Pan" and another VI
Perseus and Andromeda, with a head OF MedusA
Hardly less striking picture is by Philip Burne
Jones, called 1'he shadow Of the Saint" There is
the finest landscape Alfred Parsons has yeG
painted, and a number ot portraits, among which
kichmons Is prominent The jubilee year viii ba
remembered among the most successful Ut
modern picture years.
LesSeps' "reminiscences, extending over period
OF forty years. viii appear Ina Paris Ia october.
'Juyenilia Is the title oi Vernon Lees new book,
TO be published In May by Cnwln.